CN101626690B - Molded meat jerky - Google Patents
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Abstract
A molded animal chew toy including a resin, a fluid such as water, and meat jerky, particularly chicken jerky, is provided. Processes for forming such resin/water/jerky composition into shapes by direct injection molding, including a desired screw design, are also disclosed.
Description
The cross reference of related application
The application requires to enjoy the U.S. Patent application series No.11/670 that submitted on February 1st, 2007, the rights and interests of 375 the applying date, and its instruction is hereby incorporated by.
Technical field
The present invention relates to the animal's chewing matter for dog, cat and other relevant animals, more particularly, relate to the molded animal chew thing that can contain dired chicken meat or Other Meat dryed product.Chaw can also be rich in vitamin, mineral matter and/or Chinese herbal medicine additive agent, is delivered to animal to promote these compositions by the process of chewing.Can also in described molding process, starch, wheat gluten casein, protein/colloids, greenhide and various other resins be mixed in the jerky.
Background
Exist to relate to the various open source literatures of research and develop edible dog chaw, these chaws be can digest, nutritious and have and can regulate to be suitable for the preference of various dogs or the quality of needs separately.Therefore, pay close attention to following exemplary open source literature: US Patent No. 6,180,161 " HeatModifiable Edible Dog Chew " (the variable edible dog chaw of heat); US 6,159,516 " method of moulding of edible starch "; US 6,126,978 " edible dog chaws "; US6,110,521 " having varistructured wheat and casein dog chaw "; US 6,093,441 " hot variable peanut dog chaws "; US 6,093,427 " vegetables base dog chaws "; US6,086,940 " high-content of starch chaw "; US 6,067,941 " animal's chewing matters "; US6,056,991 " having varistructured turkey and rice dog chaw "; US 5,941,197 " carrot base dog chaws "; US 5,827,565 " preparation methods of edible dog chaw "; US 5,339,771 " animal chew toy that contain animal's diet "; US 5,240,720 " having varistructured dog chaw "; US 5,200,212 " having varistructured dog chaw ".Also paying close attention to denomination of invention is the US Patent No. 5,419,283 of " chew toys of starch material and degradable ethylene copolymer " for US Patent No. 6,165,474 and the denomination of invention of " patent application of nutrient drug toy ".
Denomination of invention is US Patent No. 6,586,027 and the US6 of " healthy chew toys ", and 916,497 all are transferred to assignee of the present invention and comprise its integral body as a reference at this.These patents relate to molded, digestible fully, nutritious animal's chewing matter, and it is rich in vitamin, mineral matter and/or Chinese herbal medicine additive agent.
Although below help the main body of the available chew product of animal without doubt,, exist and to carry out improved needs to above-mentioned, particularly mix in these chew product about thermoforming (for example, molded) and with meat products.Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide the molded chew toy for animal, it comprises meat products, as chicken.In addition, a further object of the present invention provides by extruding and injection-molded such meat products is included in method in the animal's chewing matter.
General introduction
Molded animal chew toy is provided, and it comprises jerky, the meat products of dired chicken meat form particularly, and it may further include vitamin and/or mineral matter and/or herbal medicine and strengthens chaw.Can under the thermal degradation that can make additive minimizes and control the condition of water content of meat products part, meat products and vitamin, mineral matter and/or Chinese herbal medicine additive agent be mixed in the molded chew toy.Can form mixture as vitamin as described in water, jerky and optional one or more and/or mineral matter and/or herbal medicine by hybrid resin, fluid and form chew toys.Resin can comprise that any can form fluid and can be molded and be cooled to the resin of required form under the rising temperature conditions.Meat products can comprise jerky, includes but not limited to chicken, beef, venison, lamb, the flesh of fish (for example, tuna and salmon), pork, turkey meat, crocodile meat, ostrich meat and elk meat, or its mixture.
The present invention also broadly relates to and comprises jerky, particularly molded animal chew thing or the chew toys of dired chicken meat, it can mix with resin and fluid such as water, and uses the Technology of Plastic Processing moulding to produce animal's chewing matter, its long term storage can not needed refrigeration.Therefore, jerky can be evenly distributed in the moulded product relatively with resin.Moreover jerky can comprise the mixture of meat products, as mentioned above.Such chaw can also comprise the mixture of collagen, casein, starch, vegetable matter, greenhide, glutelin, soybean, rice, potato, shelled peanut/flour and/or any other thermoplastic resin of sex change and partial hydrolysis.Can choose wantonly at this all chew toys and to comprise flavoring or food pigment.
Can also be by the direct injection-molded molded chew toy of the present invention that forms.It can also by combination of extrusion and injection-molded or by the extruding and excision forming form.Direct injection molding process for forming molded chew toy can use modified screw, and it comprises the transition region greater than half of feed zone length.
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The present invention relates to the research and development for the edible chew toys of moulded resin base of animal, this chew toys comprises meat products, and as dired chicken meat, and it can further be rich in vitamin/mineral and/or herbal medicine, to help total nutritional need/demand of animal.
Jerky be just do not need to refrigerate can long term storage very common form of meat.Usually meat is cut into thin, removes most of fat, dry then.Dry can carrying out in the baking box of relative low-heat, it is ripe to make product do not cooked, or dries.Can also add salt and anticorrisive agent and marinade.By water content is kept low relatively, can prevent from becoming sour, because slowed down growth of microorganism, if particularly be stored in the hermetically sealed packaging.Therefore, before this jerky can be understood as, be dried to the meat that water content is lower than about 40% (wt), comprised all values and increment in 0.1%-40% (wt) scope.
The meat of many types can " drying ", include but not limited to chicken, beef, venison, lamb, the flesh of fish (for example, tuna and salmon), pork, turkey meat, duck, crocodile meat, ostrich meat, wild ox meat, pheasant meat, rabbit meat, veal and elk.
Such dried meat product is incorporated in animal's chewing matter and the chew toys and can provides a greater variety of delicious experience to pet.Usually, such meat products value that has additional nutrients is provided, and is not only seasoning.Can be in extruder with such meat products and resin and fluid such as hydration also, subsequently by injection molding process, or by other plasticity method of moulding, as compression molded, extruding, lamination etc., form attractive shape.
So at first turn to resinous principle, preferred, resin can be selected from because heat and its can be because the glass transition temperature (Tg) of heating shown in surpassing or fusing point (Tm) and the material that can flow.In addition, resin can provide and allow jerky (it can keep firm relatively particle form) (for example, extruding or injection-molded) in process to be evenly distributed in molecular weight in the resin and/or the material of melt viscosity relatively.Resin can also have the distinctive repeated monomer of identifying of fluoropolymer resin.
Therefore, resin can be selected from collagen, thermoplastic polymer of starch, glutelin, soybean, rice, potato, casein, sex change and partial hydrolysis and composition thereof.Thermoplastic polymer comprises the polymer as polyamide and polyurethane, and ethylene copolymer, as poly-(ethylene acrylic) and poly-(ethylene-vinyl alcohol).In addition, instead of resins composition, or be combined with resinous principle can use greenhide, and is disclosed in 069 as US Patent No. 5,476 as the greenhide of pulverizing, and at this its instruction is incorporated herein by reference.
Other fluids beyond the expection water, particularly low-molecular-weight fluid (MW≤1000) can be included in the jerky of resin and one or more types relatively, to help making the mixture plasticising that can form molded chew toy.Therefore, can select such fluid, make in process and maybe it can be designed to remain in the finished product owing to heat is removed (volatilization).
As representational example, with regard to starch, can depend in this method starch and water and jerky are merged to form mixture, in order to make this mixture be suitable for using known Technology of Plastic Processing melt processed.About this point, pay close attention to the US Patent No. of owning together 6,159,516, its instruction is incorporated herein by reference.Therefore, method at this is used such melt processed technology, and comprise merging starch, jerky and water, wherein water content is at first in being higher than about 25% scope, for example, be higher than 25% to the scope of about 40.0% weight, introduce in the extruder described mixture and heating, when wherein from described extruder, drawing off, the water content of described product is lower than the water content that enters the described product in the described extruder, and product is introduced in the injection molding machine of heating, and injection-molded and cooling forms described molded article, wherein water content for or be lower than about 25% weight.
According to the present invention, dried meat product, as chicken, now can be in extruder with resin and hydration also, and further processing is to form mouldable composition.In addition, the jerky composition can constitute about 1 composition to about 90% (wt), comprises wherein all values and increment.Expect that also the jerky content will and be evenly distributed in the whole molding compounds by relative homogeneous.For this reason, can be used as a plurality of particles at this expection jerky and exist, these particles have is less than or equal to about 0.25 inch maximum average cross-sectional diameter, comprises wherein all values and increment.For example, meat jerky particles can have is less than or equal to about 0.10 inch, or is less than or equal to about 0.005 inch etc. maximum average cross-sectional diameter.
Jerky can also comprise the mixture of meat products (for example, chicken and dried beef).In such a case, the amount of every kind of jerky composition can change between 0.1-99%, comprises wherein all values and increment.
Therefore, about above preferable methods, before extruding, can add vitamin, mineral matter and/or herbal medicine with starch and water, or can randomly mix with starch at that time, wherein starch will be introduced into jerky, for example be used for molded injection molding machine.Therefore, it should be noted that in content of the present invention, having realized that can be injection-molded in starch with vitamin, mineral matter and/or Chinese herbal medicine additive agent at this, and these additives do not have substantial thermal degradation, and this degraded may weaken or eliminate its therapeutic action.In content of the present invention, therefore preferred certain a part of additive at least keeps not being degraded.Therefore those skilled in the art will recognize with regard to regard to this additive that low level as 50ppm will be suitable, comprise the level between about 50ppm-100ppm, and all values wherein and increment.
Under the temperature that can significantly not degrade at additive, processing, this method provides the method that is used for providing the chewing article that contains meat products, wherein chewing article can have the moisture of controlled quatity, makes that product can long term storage and significantly do not become sour, preferably in hermetically sealed packaging.This method can be distributed in the molded chew toy these meat products and additive then, and is in the state that is saved, and makes to keep their nutrition or therapeutic value.
Therefore, by above-mentioned meat products and additive (are for example mixed resin/fluid, starch/water) in the combination, the present invention describes in detail at this and makes water promote the melt-blended of these raw materials and starch, and (for softening of fusing-process operation) not significantly thermal degradation in the plasticising process in extruding or injection molding apparatus.Therefore, those skilled in the art will recognize that the amount that can easily change water, because need to allow lower melt-processed temperature, to minimize thermal degradation and the product with control water content is provided.Yet preferred, the amount that can add water when introducing extruder is set at the about 20-40% weight with respect to starch, and it comes out to be the level of about 15-20% from extruder, and at this moment, extrudate can be under the condition for injection-molded step.After injection-molded, the amount of water can be set at about 5-20% weight, more preferably, 5-15%, and in the most preferred embodiment, the water content of moulded product (comprising jerky) can be set at about 11-14%.
Preferably, molded chew toy of the present invention contain one or more those recommend the vitamin of dog by the U.S. feeding and management committee (AAFCO).For dog, vitamin can comprise A, C, B
12, D, E, thiamines, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, nicotinic acid, pyridoxol, folic acid and choline.In the situation of cat, vitamin can comprise vitamin A, C, B
12, D, E and K, thiamines, riboflavin, pyridoxol, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid, folic acid, biotin and choline.
In preferred embodiments, can contain obtainable vitamin in the fermentation soybean functional food in this molded chew, fermentation soybean can be from Bio Foods, Ltd., Pine Brook, N.J. buy and with common trade mark SOYNATTO, more particularly SOYNATTO F614 and F625 sell.Preferably, can there be the fermentation soybean of 0.1-20% (wt), for this scope, comprises wherein all increment sizes.In addition,, its instruction is incorporated herein by reference at this with reference to the U. S. application 10/994,524 of denomination of invention for " animal's chewing matter that contains fermentation soybean food " at this.
In addition, molded chew toy of the present invention can also contain mineral matter.For dog, preferred mineral is calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, chloride, magnesium, iron, copper, violent, zinc, iodine, selenium.Yet, notice and recommended other trace minerals, as Co, Mo, Cd, As, Si, V, Ni, Pb and Sn.In addition, need be with the gram mineral matter of content/sky as potassium, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium, and iron, zinc, copper, iodine and selenium only need mg or μ g/ days.Therefore, can change chew toys at this according to nutritional need, to reflect the given mineral matter of higher or lower concentration.
Then turn to herb ingredients, herbal medicine can be selected from hypericum perforatum, slips, ginkgo, genseng (Asia or Siberia kind), Echinacea purpurea and composition thereof.Other herbal medicine comprise that radix ranunculi ternati, camomile, goldenseal, saw palmitic acid, valerian, vitex agnus-castus, rattleroot, blueberry and water fly pheasant.Herbal medicine can also comprise aloe, the Radix Astragali, burdock, chestnut, coriolus, versicolor, cogongrass, pod fan bark, radix tarxaci, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, elecampane, evening primrose, eyebright, falseunicorm root, feverfen, garlic, ginger, goldenseal, Gotu Kola, grape seed extract, green tea, guggulipid, hawthorn, hop, ivy, Radix Glycyrrhizae, water flies pheasant, mistletoe (the U.S., Asia and European kind), motherwort, oat, osha, passionflower, pumpkin pygeum, red clover, rosemary,, chinaroot greenbrier, Huang Ling, the saw palmitic acid, nettle, wild indigo, wild Chinese yam and yerba mansa.In addition, aminoglucose and/or chondroitin can be added in arbitrary embodiment described herein.
Then turn to and consider mixing of vitamin/mineral of the present invention and/or Chinese herbal medicine additive agent, preferably can be with these additive admixtures on the surface of molding part, make animal begin chaw fought for and give animal with these additive deliveries before losing interest.In this, the present invention has considered that several method comes optionally these additives to be placed on the surface of moulded product.First-selection can optionally concentrate these additives from the teeth outwards by molded back operation, wherein mixes additive in the soaking solution and makes its coating and/or permeate molded chew toys.Preferably, can use the aqueous solution that contains vitamin/mineral and/or herbal medicine.
Perhaps, the present invention has considered the method for common injection or inserted mode system, and this makes various kinds of resin be expelled in the mould with adjoining each other and makes single chew toys.In this, the starch/jerky formulation that does not contain vitamin/mineral and/or herbal medicine can be used as the core of chew toys, and the starch/jerky formulation that contains described vitamin/mineral and/or herbal medicine can be used as outer molded surface.Can change the thickness of core or superficial layer then according to any required level.
With reference to this altogether instruction of injection, can know this allow uniquely to contain the resin skin of additive (vitamin, mineral matter, herbal medicine) (for example, starch) therein water content be higher than under the condition of core injection-molded.For example, before injection-molded, outer layer formulation can contain 10-20%, and the water content of preferred 15-20% wherein makes the starch/jerky mixture as core contain the water content that is lower than outer selected any level.Therefore, altogether this feature of injection provides the ability of control by the hardness gradient of edible chaw cross section, superficies softer relatively (for example, lower Shore hardness), and inside (for example, higher Shore hardness) relatively firmly, and vice versa.
In addition, when chew toys of the present invention is the dog bone shape of routine, contain center and two end portions, those skilled in the art will recognize that terminal or " joint " of the common at first chewing bone of dog.Since it is so situation has considered endways part optionally vegol/mineral matter and/or herbal medicine or jerky in this present invention, to guarantee that nutrition is delivered to given animal most effectively.This is preferably by injecting altogether or finishing by above-mentioned molded back immersion process.
In this a particularly preferred animal chew toy manufacture method, can at first merge starch, jerky and water, wherein water content with respect to described starch/jerky 20 to the scope of about 40% weight.Mixture can be introduced in the air exhauster cartridge type extruding machine, to form extruded product, can reduce its size, be used for further processing, the water content when wherein drawing off from extruder is lower than the water content of the described mixture that enters extruder.This extruded product can be the form of pearl or ball or sheet, can be cut to bulk, is used for further melt-processed.Then the pearl of extruding or ball or piece can be introduced and contain in the heating injection molding machine of mould, injection-molded and cooling forms molded articles, wherein the water content of molded articles for or be lower than about 25% weight, wherein injection molding machine contains the magazine feed part, bucket and outlet nozzle, comprise a plurality of heating regions from described hopper partly extends to the described bucket of described nozzle, wherein described a plurality of heating regions are arranged in the following temperature range: district 1=is or is lower than about 70 °F; District 2=is or is lower than 150 °F; District 3=is or is lower than about 300 °F; District 4=is or is lower than about 375 °F.Preferably, mould self is cooled to about 35-65 °F.
About above-described, should be understood that by use to place the bucket cooling coil on every side of injection molding machine to obtain above temperature profile in most convenient ground that wherein such coil pipe comprises the copper cooling coil that contains recirculated water.Therefore, the advantage of Du Te temperature profile is to minimize composition (for example, starch, jerky and optional nourishing additive agent described herein) thermal degradation, and can control the water content of final moulded product like this.
In another exemplary of the present invention, can form the molded chew toy that comprises one or more jerky raw materials of the present invention by jerky direct injection-molded.Jerky can be self not to be exposed to before for the heat treated jerky of moulded product purpose is provided especially.In other words; although for drying purpose heats jerky; and granulation or make ball, the jerky that can be illustrated in this still also is not exposed to the environment of heating/molded type of finding in extruder or injection molding machine, and therefore is interpreted as in a state of nature jerky at this.Therefore, can make jerky have again and be less than or equal to about 0.25 " average diameter, comprise wherein all values and increment.In addition, directly injection-molded in this consideration can merge jerky, as mentioned above again with resin and fluid.Therefore, disclosed method is directly injection-molded in this jerky can be according to U. S. application No.11/198/881, and this U. S. application is transferred to assignee of the present invention and comprises its integral body as a reference at this.Therefore, can learn, for example, at needs in extruder before the blending constituent, can be with jerky, or resin, fluid and jerky are directly introduced in the bucket of injection molding machine, and mix to form composition at this, and form intermediate product (pearl, ball etc.).
In relevant exemplary, can be according to U. S. application No.11/251,261 and 11/278,735 instruction is used for direct injection-molded modified screw, and this U. S. application is transferred to assignee of the present invention and comprises its integral body as a reference at this.Modified screw comprises the transition region with first length L 1 and the feed zone with second length L 2, wherein L1＞0.5*L2.Modified screw has the metering zone that length is L3, wherein L3＞0.5*L2.In addition, at the different parts of screw rod, channel depth CD can be different, and this is the distance from the threaded top to the screw stem.For example, feed zone can have first passage depth CD 1, and metering zone has second channel depth CD 2, wherein CD1＞2.0*CD2.
Can also be especially with modified screw and/or the bucket covering of injection molding machine, this provides the surface finish value that is higher than 5 microinch " Ra ".Modified screw can also comprise at least two screw threads screw rod all or part of.One of those screw threads can be the barrier-type screw threads.
The direct injection-molded a kind of exemplary composition that is used for molded edible animal's chewing matter can contain dired chicken meat, cellulose/common oats fibre, as the plasticizer of glycerine, as the emulsifying agent of lecithin, with optional additive, as vitamin, mineral matter, omega-3 fatty acid and flavor enhancement.Resin such as starch can exist with the level that is higher than about 50% (wt), comprise all values and increment between the 50-99% (wt).In addition, it is about 15% that plasticizer can exist, and emulsifying agent can be about 10% level.
In another exemplary of the present invention, the mixture of resin, water and jerky can be incorporated in the auger conveyor of heating.Therefore, can be used for further mixed adhesive and basic ingredient for the auger conveyor of auger-type conveyer, and during heating, contain mixtures of liquids along with applying, operationalize and make composition increase to whole higher solid level, or change kind of a mode and describe, to lower water content, relevant with those mixtures that contain moisture.It should be noted that preferred spiral/auger-type conveyer does not contain punch die, also do not produce pressure in the bucket along with routine is squeezed in.In addition, under situation about not existing under the heating in conjunction with the adhesive of basic ingredient, auger conveyor can be redistributed the adhesive in the basic ingredient, makes to produce more effective combination.
Therefore, the outlet with auger conveyor installs on the cylinder then, can regulate its temperature, and this cylinder is used for forming sheet-shaped material.In this, recognize two relative cylinders that adhesive and basic ingredient can be introduced in the circumferential surface position.As described, can choose wantonly cylinder heating or cooling, and each cylinder can be set to different temperature, and the optional surface of containing polishing or non-viscous types.According to the space between the cylinder, can form the sheet that produces or the netted raw material that have corresponding to space thickness between cylinder.Therefore, cylinder is used for adhesive and basic ingredient are pressed into sheet, and optional cylinder can the cooling be helped such tablet formation.In addition, cylinder self can be chosen wantonly and contain fluted and protuberance, makes the protuberance of a cylinder enter in the groove of relative cylinder, and therefore the cavity is provided, to form raw band.Therefore, the depth of engagement self that enters the protuberance of groove will make the desired thickness that can select raw band to be produced, and finally cut into final shape.It is indoor the sheet-shaped material of any specific desired thickness of therefore forming can be delivered to thermal conditioning then, passage preferably, and it is partially or completely around tablet, and it provides uniform heating.Therefore, the mixture moulding and cut size roughly by roll crusher after, from roll crusher, resulting tablet is unloaded to conveyer, it is put in the chamber of thermal conditioning.Optional, conveyer can be cooled off, further further to help the cooling tablet before the thermal conditioning.
Therefore, especially, that passes the said temperature controlled passage passes through to be used for extra hardening composition.Under the sort of situation, can be according to the specific final solid level temperature of regulating passage of expectation, because the temperature of passage is used for further removing liquid, as moisture, therefore increased the hardness of the tablet that forms.Therefore, can regulate the temperature of passage and the time span in the passage easily, this depends on adhesive and basic ingredient, and the desired moisture content that expectation obtains in chew product.In addition, passage can be used for providing cooling to given selected composition.
The next step of this method can relate to and cuts into final required form.This can realize in several modes.At first, if purpose can cut out the sheet product along an axle at first for forming sq.rd, make the width of rod is set.Then, can use second cutting machine to come preseting length.Perhaps, can be in reverse order or carry out this simultaneously.As by for example vertically cutting apart the replaceable scheme of the bar-shaped structure that cutting obtains with guillotine type, can use conventional method well known by persons skilled in the art that tablet is formed different shapes.These shapes can be the forms of product piece, it can be supplied to injection molding machine subsequently, and further plasticising also is molded as more complicated shape.In addition, consider that such cutting can provide for example difform object, as the dog bone shape, it can come out from tablet is die-cut, and does not use further not melt-processed.Other cuttings and forming method also can be used for from the product of the sheet-shaped material generation different shape of roll forming.Suitable cutting and forming technique comprise that water sprays cutting, hot knife, punching press etc.
At last, the composition of other types can be incorporated in this any chew toys, with the attraction that improves animal and/or the aesthetic appearance of improving moulded product.For example, can randomly mix flavoring and the food colour of 0.1-5% level.In addition, can choose wantonly and mix calcium carbonate, have been found that it can increase hardness.In addition, can randomly mix the wetting agent of 0.1-5.0% scope, as common oats fibre.In addition, can randomly comprise anticorrisive agent, as Sodium Benzoate, sodium nitrate or calcium propionate.
According to the present invention, having been found that can be with collagen and jerky and the another kind of resin of sex change and partial hydrolysis, as the greenhide of casein, starch, plant material, chopping or synthetic fluoropolymer resin, as thermoplastic resin, comprise as polyamide and or polyurethane, and ethylene copolymer, mix as poly-(ethylene acrylic) and/or poly-(ethylene-vinyl alcohol).In this, have been found that mixture will be from having offered melt processed under pressure, this comprises extruding, injection-molded and/or compression molded technology.Therefore, can prepare the chew toys of injection molded type at this, it contains the collagen of jerky and sex change and partial hydrolysis, and molded chew toys, and it contains such collagen and above-mentioned various composition.
In addition, for jerky and sex change and partial hydrolysis collagen, also have for example mixture of plant material, greenhide, casein and starch, have been found that preferred mixed-level any up in these compositions of 50%, and any ratio between the 0.1-50%.Preferably, and be representational example, for containing rawhide mixture, have been found that and preferably mix about 25% sex change and the collagen and about 25% of partial hydrolysis contains rawhide jerky, and in most preferred form, the collagen of about 15% sex change and partial hydrolysis and 25% jerky that mixes with greenhide.
Therefore, the method according to this invention can be used for making edible molded animal treats and/or edible animal's chewing matter.Expection will be all edible by pet or animal according to animal's diet of the present invention.Therefore, when the product of expectation is animal's diet, can also assign to form from the one-tenth that nutritional benefits is provided.Similarly, can expect will provide nutritive value together with oral health benefits according to animal's chewing matter of the present invention, be used at the gums of mastication process massage pet etc.In addition, as previously described, this product or can form from edible and even inedible composition, wherein can select inedible composition so that the durability of prolongation to be provided when the animal chew together together with other reason.
In addition, however those skilled in the art it should also be understood that as used in this any classification of " meals " or " chaw " or " chew toys " is not to having association in this scope of the present invention.In addition, it must also be noted that in the concept of this animal's diet or chaw without limits, and extend to birds, small-sized mammalian etc.
At length listed the present invention, but just explanation of each embodiment that those skilled in the art are to be understood that at this, and the feature of each embodiment or embodiment can be exchanged.Therefore, improving and change will be significantly, and can adopt and do not break away from spirit of the present invention and scope of equal value.Therefore, think in the range limit of the present invention that such improvement and equivalent list in following claim.
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1. be used to form the method for edible animal molded chew toy, comprise:
(a) merge resin, fluid and jerky and form mixture, wherein jerky has the water content of 0.1wt%-40wt% scope and comprises the particle of the average cross-section thickness with 0.10 inch-0.25 inch;
(b) described mixture is introduced in the injection molding machine of heating, described moulding press has modified screw, the magazine feed part, bucket and outlet nozzle, wherein a plurality of thermals treatment zone partly extend to described outlet nozzle from described magazine feed, described a plurality of thermal treatment zone comprises and is arranged on for or is lower than first district under 70 the temperature, be arranged on for or be lower than second district under 150 the temperature, be arranged on for or be lower than the 3rd district under 300 the temperature, with be arranged on for or be lower than the 4th district under 375 the temperature, described modified screw comprises feed zone, transition region and metering zone, described transition region has first length L 1, described feed zone has second length L 2, and described metering zone has the 3rd length L 3, wherein L1＞0.5*L2 and L3＞0.5*L2; With
(c) the molded and described mixture of cooling forms described molded chew toy, and the excursion of the water content of wherein said molded chew toy is 11wt%-14wt%.
2. the process of claim 1 wherein that the described fluid in the described mixture exists with the level that is higher than 25% weight before the moulding press of introducing described heating.
3. the process of claim 1 wherein that described jerky is evenly dispersed in the described molded chew toy.
4. the process of claim 1 wherein that described jerky is present in the described molded chew toy with the level of 1-90wt%.
5. the process of claim 1 wherein that described resin is selected from the collagen of starch, glutelin, soybean, rice, potato, casein, sex change and partial hydrolysis, thermoplastic polymer and composition thereof.
6. the process of claim 1 wherein that described jerky comprises chicken, beef, venison, lamb, the flesh of fish, pork, turkey meat, crocodile meat, ostrich meat and elk meat and composition thereof.
7. the process of claim 1 wherein that described resin comprises the mixture of starch and thermoplastic polymer.
8. the method for claim 7, wherein said thermoplastic polymer comprises the ethylene copolymer that is selected from polyethylene acrylic acid, poly ethylene vinyl alcohol and composition thereof.
9. the method for claim 1 further comprises the fermentation soybean functional food of 0.1-20wt%.
10. be used for the method that direct injection-molded jerky comes production molded animal chew thing, comprise:
Injection molding machine is provided, described injection molding machine comprises modified screw, bucket, mould, magazine feed part and outlet nozzle, wherein a plurality of thermals treatment zone partly extend to described outlet nozzle from described magazine feed, described a plurality of thermal treatment zone comprises and is arranged on for or is lower than first district under 70 the temperature, be arranged on for or be lower than second district under 150 the temperature, be arranged on for or be lower than the 3rd district under 300 the temperature and be arranged on for or be lower than the 4th district under 375 the temperature;
Jerky, resin and fluid are directly introduced in the described injection molding machine, and wherein jerky has the water content of 0.1wt%-40wt% scope and comprises the particle of the average cross-section thickness with 0.10 inch-0.25 inch;
In described moulding press, mix described resin, described jerky and described fluid, to form composition;
Described composition is formed molded shape, and wherein said molded shape has the water content of 11wt%-14wt%;
Wherein said modified screw comprises feed zone, transition region and metering zone, and described transition region has first length L 1, and described feed zone has second length L 2, and described metering zone has the 3rd length L 3, wherein L1＞0.5*L2 and L3＞0.5*L2.
11. the method for claim 10, wherein said resin are selected from greenhide, thermoplastic polymer of collagen, the chopping of starch, glutelin, soybean, rice, potato, casein, sex change and partial hydrolysis and composition thereof.
12. the method for claim 10, the step of wherein described jerky, described resin and described fluid directly being introduced in the injection molding machine further comprises one or more additives of introducing.
13. the method for claim 11, wherein said one or more additives comprise the fermentation soybean functional food of 0.1-20wt%.
14. the method for claim 10, wherein said jerky comprises the jerky of reset condition.
15. be used for the method for direct injection-molded animal's chewing matter, comprise:
With resin, fluid and jerky are introduced and are comprised modified screw, bucket, mould, in the injection molding machine of magazine feed part and outlet nozzle, wherein a plurality of thermals treatment zone partly extend to described outlet nozzle from described magazine feed, described a plurality of thermal treatment zone comprises and is arranged on for or is lower than first district under 70 the temperature, be arranged on for or be lower than second district under 150 the temperature, be arranged on for or be lower than the 3rd district under 300 the temperature, with be arranged on for or be lower than the 4th district under 375 the temperature, described modified screw comprises feed zone, transition region and metering zone, described transition region has first length L 1, described feed zone has second length L 2, and described metering zone has the 3rd length L 3, wherein L1＞0.5*L2 and L3＞0.5*L2;
Described resin, described fluid and described jerky are mixed in described moulding press and heat, to form the composition of heating; With
The composition of described heating is formed the animal's chewing matter with 11wt%-40wt% water content;
Wherein said jerky has the water content of about 0.1wt%-40wt%, and comprises the particle with 0.10 inch-0.25 inch average cross-section thickness.
16. the method for claim 15, wherein said feed zone has first passage depth CD 1, and described metering zone has second channel depth CD 2, wherein CD1＞2.0*CD2.
17. the method for claim 15 comprises described jerky and additive are merged that described additive comprises 0.1-20wt% fermentation soybean functional food.
18. the method for claim 15, wherein said jerky comprises the jerky of reset condition.
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